In my comment 567 to Admiralty on H.M. Ambassador Tokyo's telegram 1187 to Foreign office I stated (with reference to south China Coast generally) that "the suggestion that Japanese Naval Authorities

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F.12293/1870/10.

CUT MILE

LIMITED DISTRIBUTION.

Code telegram to Sir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).

Foreign Office.

No. 846 (R).

12th December, 1939.

10.30 a.m.

JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ

Shanghai telegram No. 1313 to me [of the 30th November: Notification to Japanese of particulars of British property

in China].

I shall be glad of your comments.

Repeated to Shanghai No. 1206.

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